(urth) The ending of Soldier of Arete

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Didn't Pasicrates get him to order Polos to obey him?

I don't think pederasty sits too well with Latro, somehow.



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> And by his dead Amazon lover.
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> But there is undeniably something going on with Pasicrates as well,
> because
> of the dreams, etc.
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>>Latro is depressed about the slaughter of the helots by the Spartans,
>>not by Pasicrates.
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>>Joel
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>> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:20:44 +1100 Tom Foster
>> > <tbfoster at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> >> A long-time lurker writes, though I have posted several times
>> >> before in the past...
>> >>
>> >> I've been re-reading the first two Latro novels in preparation for
>> >
>> >> 'Soldier of Sidon', and have just finished 'Arete'. I remember
>> >> finding the ending confusing on first reading several years ago,
>> >> and had hoped it would be a bit clearer to me this time round,
>> >> having read many posts in the urth archives, and some Robert
>> >> Graves and Herodotus. However, I still don't really understand
>> >> what happens, event-by-event so to speak (though much of the rest
>> >> of the events of the two books as much clearer this time round,
>> >> mainly thanks to past posts on this list).
>> >
>> > The ending is pretty confusing. I posted my interpretation a few
>> > weeks ago - should be in the archives, fwiw.
>> >
>> > On Polos: Pasicrates is pederastically infatuated with him and has
>> > molested him at least once in the past. Polos now says that he'll
>> > try to be Pasicrates' lover if he'll just let go of his anger at
>> > Latro. This is .... icky.
>> >
>> > On Latro's depression: I've never understood why Pasicrates is the
>> > cause of this, either.
>> >
>>
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